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As I see it, there is ZERO cause for celebration because the Netherlands' court simply punted the 'free speech' versus 'hate speech' ball to the need-it-be-said (?!) UNELECTED SUPRANATIONAL United Nations Human Rights Commission - thus giving the notoriously Islam-friendly body the ability to set international precedent on this issue - and guess what the United Nations Human Rights Commission is going to decide?!

A better result would have been for the national court to strike down the offending hate speech law - which still stands to harass the common man who faces more serious free speech constraints than a politician like Geert Wilders.

I love those trousers you're wearing in your picture nilk. You ought to take a picture with a thumbs up next to them and send it to the company that made them, maybe it would really brighten up some interns day. I bet he would mount the picture on his cubicle wall next to a picture of his mother. Poor guy, things have been tough on him lately.

A new report from two French think tanks concludes that jihadists have played a predominant role in the eastern-Libyan rebellion against the rule of Moammar Qaddafi, and that “true democrats” represent only a minority in the rebellion.

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The report describes members of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Libyan Islamic Fighting Group as the “main pillar of the armed insurrection.” “Thus the military coalition under NATO leadership is supporting a rebellion that includes Islamic terrorists,” the authors write. Alluding to the major role played by the Cyrenaica region in supplying recruits for al-Qaeda in Iraq, they add, “No one can deny that the Libyan rebels who are today supported by Washington were only yesterday jihadists killing American GIs in Iraq.”